What is BioInnovation?

Do you want to find out about medical innovation? Do you want to develop a concept that can solve a clinical need? Do you want to find a good idea for a start-up company?

Then you should join BioInnovation, a hands-on seminar where you learn how to successfully identify unmet clinical needs within the clinical routine and work towards possible and realistic solutions to solve those needs. You get to know tools helping you to be a successful innovator in medical technology. This includes all steps from needs finding and selection to defining appropriate solution concepts, including the development of first prototypes. During the course, necessary steps for successful idea and concept creation are presented and fully realized in interdisciplinary project teams. During the project phase, each team is supported by coaches from academia, industry and medicine, in order to allow for direct and continuous exchange.

Course Features

Work in interdisciplinary teams.

Spend a minimum of three full days in full clinical immersion, identifying unmet needs.

Who should participate?

We accept and encourage students of all possible disciplines to join for this lab course. Focusing on medical technology and applications to the clinical routine, we anticipate a broad field of studies as main audience, including:

Computer scientists

Engineers of any kind

Biologists, chemists, physicists

Business administration and economics students

Students should have basic knowledge and understanding of medical technology, with an interested in innovation within field. Due to the interdisciplinarity of project teams, skills within the respective area of specialty will be required throughout the progress of the lab course.
We encourage students to work pro-actively with exchange within, but also across the borders of the teams.

Passing requirements

Active participation and presence in the skills blocks and meetings

Submission of all assignments in time

Presentation of intermediate and final concept work.

How to be part of it!

Please apply for this lab course by mail in advance. We will select appropriate candidates based on their background, interests, and motiviation.
The notification of acceptance to the course will be distributed before final courses have to be selected.
The application deadline for students from the computer science faculty is over, places have been attributed through the course matching system.
Students from all other faculties (except computer science) are welcome to apply by sending their CV, an up to date score sheet, and a paragraph explaining their motivation for applying to this course (10 lines max) to benjamin.frisch@tum.de. Deadline was on the 30th of September to be able to provide an acceptance or rejection notification 10 days before the start of the lectures.

In this hands-on course, you will learn how to successfully identify unmet clinical needs within the clinical routine and work towards possible and realistic solutions to solve those needs. Students will get to know tools helping them to be successful innovators in medical technology. This will include all steps from needs finding and selection to defining appropriate solution concepts, including the development of first prototypes. During the course, necessary steps for successful idea and concept creation will be introduced to students and realized in interdisciplinary project teams comprised of students from various faculties, including engineering disciplines, business and design. During the project phase, each team will be supported by coaches from both engineering and medicine, in order to allow for direct and continuous exchange. Thus, the following key points will be addressed during the course: - Needs finding - From brainstorming to concept - Concept generation - Evolving your concept - Working in interdisciplinary teams